When Clint Ringle learns that Ellie Marsh, the schoolteacher whom he loves, is engaged to Walt Norton, Clint kills Walt and then hides in the schoolhouse's bell tower, waiting for his chance to exact further revenge.

A serial killer known as "the strangler" terrorizes a New York neighborhood.

A woman begs her husband not to go away on a business trip. But he refuses, deserting her just as an escaped lunatic finds their neighborhood.

Hoping to profit from insurance fraud, a man torches his house. But the plan could backfire unless he enters the burning home to retrieve his ring.

Furious at his cheating wife, a mobster hires a hit man to kill her. But the plan turns complicated when he overlooks some loose ends.

A district attorney faces a crisis in his campaign for governor when his mentally unstable brother decides to eliminate the competition.

A wealthy older man confronts the young, handsome suitor (Horton) that his wife is leaving him for.

An alcoholic has-been actor tries to blackmail a producer into casting him in a new play.

The shifty son of a shop owner plots to extract money from his long-suffering father.

Her elderly father becomes alarmed when a jilted woman purchases a handgun.

Things are not what they seem when two soldiers discharged from the Algerian war spend some time together in Marseilles.

An elderly actor proves he still has the chops to grace the stage when he reveals a tragic tale from his past.

Motherly love knows no bounds when a woman decides to get revenge on the married man who has been dating her daughter.

It's murder most foul when a man decides to drown the longtime girlfriend who's been supporting him, but his crime doesn't go unnoticed for very long.

During his last week of work before retirement, the longtime employee of a jewelry store serves an unusual client.

When a local bank clerk cheats him out of $200, a man takes extreme measures to get back his money.

John Piltkin picks up three hitchhikers who rob him. After he spots them in a diner, he exacts his revenge. He steals a car and picks the hitchhikers up. Concealing his face in shadows, he then pretends the car has stalled and walks off to get help. The hitchhickers are then arrested in the stolen car.

Troubled by the responsibility of his aging mother in law, a man takes advantage of a society that specializes in "taking care of" elderly relatives and then soon finds out that he may be in for a similar fate.

A teacher's interest in the one student who seems to care about her lessons turns tragic when she and a kindly neighbor follow the girl to a man's apartment.

Some important things get lost in translation when a South American oil explorer agrees to have his loyal native assistant take his murderous wife to a head shrinker for her health.

What begins as a mother-son vacation soon becomes a trip to agony when he falls in love with a girl who is determined to share his affections ... and will do anything to get rid of her nemesis.

At the Last Chance Saloon, an outlaw rides in to town amidst a raging blizzard. The "Whistling Kid" has a price on his head, and everyone wants a piece of the action.

The witches of Salem are getting younger by the year, and for nine-year-old Kate Kendall this isn't a problem as she has a new playmate for the summer. Parents Phyllis and Ben are altogether more concerned, and consult the local Reverend on the subject of exorcism.

Two lonely people, one an old man suffering amnesia, the other a young, lost boy, find they have more in common that they realize when meeting at the police station.